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BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-DUMPING duties imposed since 1997 on certain seamless pipes and tubes of iron or non-alloy steel from Russia and Romania will probably be suspended because of concerns they were based on corrupted data. The European Commission has said their founding calculations could have been influenced by two cartels, (an European Union (EU)-Japan and a purely European network), that were formally unmasked last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA’S Raiffeisen Leasing is likely to receive a US$60 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) boosting its leasing services to Russian and western-owned companies. Vehicle leasing is a key part of Raiffeisen Leasing’s business portfolio.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Italy, the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation have suffered particularly serious thefts from museums and other cultural sites according to figures from Interpol. In a new table published by the international police organisation Italy reports a total of 18,715 thefts – far more than any other country – of which 2,875 represented liturgical objects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA and the European Union (EU) have struck a wide-ranging trade deal helping Moscow’s application for World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership, notably by opening up its utility sectors to foreign trade. In particular, Russia has promised to raise its prices for industrial users of natural gas, so it “covers costs, profits and investment needed for exploitation of new fields”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expected next month to rubber stamp plans to lend two Russian SUAL group companies US$75 million to expand production at a bauxite mine and begin work on developing a related alumina refinery and aluminium smelter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expected next month to rubber stamp plans to lend two Russian SUAL group companies US$75 million to expand production at a bauxite mine and begin work on developing a related alumina refinery and aluminium smelter.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA’S exporters of grain oriented electrical sheets will be temporarily exempted from European Union (EU) anti-dumping duties (of between 40.1 and 14.7 per cent) on sales to the new 10 EU member countries, to avoid “sharp price increases”.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHEN a local pizza parlour goes bust, or the site of a planned hotel complex is suddenly left abandoned or interest rates suddenly shoot up for no apparent reason, we don’t normally blame money launderers. Perhaps we should though.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to finance an overhaul of Russia’s electricity transmission system, raising its standards to those applied in western and central Europe, boosting exports of excess power. Its loan package – whose value has yet been set – would finance the installation of a new IT system managing electricity flows (a SCADA/EMS supervisory control and data acquisition/energy management system).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has bought a minority stake in leading Russian mineral water company JSC Narzan, in a combined US$12.25 million loan and equity investment. The money will help Narzan expand its bottling capacity, develop new products and supply working capital.…